Hughes: UFC needs a fighter to balance Joe Rogan
Matt Hughes says it’s time for the UFC to add a fighter to the broadcast. On his web site, Hughes…
Matt Hughes says it’s time for the UFC to add a fighter to the broadcast.
On his web site, Hughes wrote up some of his thoughts on UFC 121, and Hughes says Rogan didn’t serve the viewers well with his analysis of the welterweight fight between Jake Shields and Martin Kampmann.
“From a technical view, Kampmann had a terrible fight, in my opinion, he gave the fight to Shields,” Hughes writes. “One thing I will say is Joe Rogan’s commentary was a little off during the fight. The ground game was pretty even in my book with Shields doing a little more controlling. Kampmann escaped to his feet several times and Kampmann had more submission attempts than Shields had, but listening to Rogan, you would have thought Shields had submitted him the first ten seconds of being on the ground. I really think the UFC could use a third man doing the broadcast, that has some experience inside the Octagon. I don’t disagree with everything Rogan says, but there are a lot of things he says that I just laugh at.”
In general I’m a fan of Rogan’s, and I actually think Rogan usually does a better job of analyzing the fights than most of the former professional fighters who have tried their hands at TV commentary. But with respect to the way Rogan analyzed Shields vs. Kampmann, I do think there’s some merit to what Hughes is saying.